Daily Walkoff (another online game)

[Big Papa Smurph]

https://www.dailywalkoff.com/

Another game where you get to remember some guys. You get 12 players and 4 categories for each team. Line up the 3 player that fit into each column (click on any two players to change their position). You can do all thirty teams.

It can get a bit tricky for players who might fit into multiple categories. Like for today's Houston Astros page, there are 4 guys who played a lot for the Astros in the 90's, but only Biggio played a lot in the 2000s, so that's where he goes.

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[LogansDad]

Oh this one is neat. Nailed the Sox first first try (as will everyone else here).

Edit: Being able to do all 30 teams could also take me all day....

 

[Archer1979]

Oh this one is neat. Nailed the Sox first first try (as will everyone else here).

Edit: Being able to do all 30 teams could also take me all day....

Yankees came up first for me and I got a triple.

Sox... I think I'm going to be one of many here.

 

[nolasoxfan]

Daily Walkoff
#89 - 11/27/2024
New York Yankees


Hard to be happy about anything Yankee -related, but a fun game.

 

[Big Papa Smurph]

Daily Walkoff
#89 - 11/27/2024
New York Yankees


Hard to be happy about anything Yankee -related, but a fun game.

You can pick other teams (you can even complete the game for all 30 teams). Just click on the team name at the top of the page and a drop-down list of every team will show up.

 

[Myt1]

My knowledge of baseball after having kids is like my knowledge of music and pop culture: non-existent. I’m not convinced that all of the players actually existed. Had to process of elimination the last decade for most teams.

 

[Brand Name]

The Daily Walkoff guys are really awesome on Twitter too, big Immaculate Grid fans who were on Ordinary Effort recently. If I had time I'd do all 30, because I think this game skews a touch easier than Grid, personally. For instance, just as a matter of sometimes knowing pitchers aren't going to hit 20+ homers a year outside of obvious exceptions eliminates a plurality of possible options most days for any given selection. This game reminds me a bit of the Connecting Wall from the UK game show Only Connect, or as you might know it from a playing experience, Connections from the NYT.

I've not quite made the direct impact in creating rarity score like I did for Grid on this one but they hit me up for early feedback about how to appeal to people--my imprint here is selling them on the concept that they implemented of day streaks (like Wordle) so you have a reward to go back, rather than having the game be in isolation. I also think they would be wise to do levels and ranks for if you complete a certain number in a given day, lifetime, etc.

Apparently someone from Tulsa does all 30 every day, I was told. I can't imagine having that degree of free time. And my life is almost exclusively sports both at work and outside of work!

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

27/30 walk offs. I have a feeling a lot of you would get all 30 if you took 10-15 minutes to do it.

 

[oumbi]

 

[scottyno]

Game would be better if it had a mode where you had to get the order correct inside the column for it to be considered right

 

[DJnVa]

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[Humphrey]

Was happy to get the Sox one right today, especially considering I have no clue who Tyler Thornberg is.

I did know that Jim Landis was a Red Sox for approximately a week. Acquired on waivers after Tony C. got beaned; released when The Hawk became available.

 

[simplicio]

Thornburg was the guy we traded Travis Shaw for who turned out to have a bum shoulder and ended up totally worthless.

 

[ookami7m]

It is amazing how quickly something like this pops up and then gets blocked by the internet filters at my work

 

[Dollar]

Every day I start playing and tell myself I'll just do two or three teams... and then I find myself still playing 20 teams later.

 

[GrandSlamPozo]

Are players only supposed to fit into one of the 4 columns? Because

Spoiler

Billy Goodman is ranked 10-15 among Red Sox hits leaders and mostly played second base for the Red Sox, but it only accepts it if you submit him in the "Red Sox hit leaders rank 10-15" column, not in the "mostly played second base" column.

 

[Sad Sam Jones]

Are players only supposed to fit into one of the 4 columns? Because

Spoiler

Billy Goodman is ranked 10-15 among Red Sox hits leaders and mostly played second base for the Red Sox, but it only accepts it if you submit him in the "Red Sox hit leaders rank 10-15" column, not in the "mostly played second base" column.

Most of them will fit into more than one column. The point is that there is only one way to categorize them so they all fit into a correct category.

 

[Sad Sam Jones]

They should probably avoid the franchise rankings until they can update them through 2024... I missed the Guardians one today because I couldn't remember that Emmanuel Clase wasn't top 3 in saves a year ago (he's #1 now).

 

[LogansDad]

Today's is much more challenging than previous ones, IMO. (I did not play yesterday)

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

I have zero recollection of Mike Avilesbeing on the Red Sox

 

[CoolPapaBellhorn]

I have zero recollection of Mike Avilesbeing on the Red Sox

You don't remember Friendly Mike Aviles???

 

[Lose Remerswaal]

You don't remember Friendly ______ ________???

Not at all. I saw that name and thought there was going to be a 1972 category as it felt to me we had a guy with that name then, but as a backup.

 

[Ferm Sheller]

I seem to recall that Mike Aviles got into a big dust up with Bobby V over infield drills, or am I misremembering that?

 

[Archer1979]

2012 is so much of a haze for me that people have a hard time convincing me that Bobby V. actually managed the Sox for a year.

That said, today's was relatively easy just because there wasn't that much overlap between the years specified.

 

[Sad Sam Jones]

Cleveland's uses Casey Blake and Carlos Santana. Simply knowing they were traded for each other answers what category they must go in.

 

[tonypenasgascloud]

Was Pat Rapp injured at the end of the '99 season? He had a 122 ERA+ for the year and aside from one September blowup he certainly pitched well enough down the stretch to be a better choice than running Ramon Martinez and Kent Mercker (twice!!!!) out there in the ALCS. Or was he in Jimy Williams' doghouse for some reason?